What Counts as Success in a Church Plant?
Is it when a new pin is put on the map, and a church exists where there wasn’t one before? Is it when a group of Christians are gathering for worship and discipleship in a new location that didn’t have a church before? Is it when that group has enough people to be self-sustaining, self-sufficient, and “particularized,” and no longer on the dole of a sending agency or in need of outside supporters? What, when all is said and done, makes a church plant “successful”?